Dawn to Provide Propulsion for Infinite Orbits’ Orbit Guard #3 Mission
Dawn Aerospace’s radiation-tolerant PCB board for SatDrive
Toulouse, France, 11th August 2025 — Dawn Aerospace is pleased to announce it’s selection by Infinite Orbits to develop a SatDrive propulsion system for their upcoming Orbit Guard #3 mission.
Orbit Guard™ servicers developed by Infinite Orbits are geostationary surveillance microsatellites. Equipped with the rendezvous solution patented by Infinite Orbits, these agile satellites are capable to perform space-based SSA such as proximity inspection of GEO assets. This capacity allows Orbit Guard™ servicers to protect strategic assets in GEO orbit.
Orbit Guard #3, to be launched in 2027, will demonstrate these two capacities thanks to a France 2030 project coordinated by French Space Agency, CNES.
“The selection of our suppliers is key to the development of our services.” said Marion Andrieux, Chief Commercial Operator at Infinite Orbits. “To develop efficient, innovative, and competitive solutions, we needed to identify strong European partners who share the same NewSpace vision. We found that in our partnership with Dawn Aerospace, and we are glad to have them on board for this remarkable mission.”
Dawn’s continued development of ever more capable SatDrive’s has resulted in turnkey propulsion systems, capable of 6 degree of freedom maneuverability and electronics suited for the GEO environment. These qualities make our SatDrive an ideal fit for the technical demands of Orbit Guard #3.
“We’ve had the privilege of collaborating with Infinite Orbits across several projects”, said Jeroen Wink, director and CRO at Dawn Aerospace. “Being selected to contribute our propulsion expertise to the Orbit Guard #3 mission is both an honour and a strong endorsement of our system capabilities.”
This project is funded by the French government in the frame of the France 2030 boost plan.
About Dawn Aerospace
Dawn Aerospace, founded in 2017, is a leading green propulsion provider to satellites, with its In-Space Propulsion HQ in the Netherlands and further operations spanning France, New Zealand, and the United States. Dawn Aerospace has hardware on 35 satellites on orbit, with customers in more than 10 countries including France, Germany, Netherlands, the USA, Italy, Spain, India, Japan, Canada, Indonesia, and Korea. The fast-growing company offers turnkey propulsion systems for a wide range of satellites, including NanoSat, MicroSat, ESPA, and ESPA Grande-class satellites.
In addition to Dawn’s in-space propulsion, Dawn is developing the fastest and highest-flying aircraft ever to take off from a runway, due to reach altitudes of 100 km (328,000 ft). This spaceplane, Aurora, combines the extreme performance of rocket propulsion with the reusability of conventional airplanes to enable high-frequency, low-cost access to high altitudes and space.